Guild Wars 2

Basic Ore Node Pack
Food
Double-click to create copper, silver, and gold mining nodes in your home instance. Each node can be mined once per day.
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With ascended jeweler right around the corner this becomes a very convenient purchase, indeed. Plus I’m always looking for more things to put in my home instance. Totally getting one.

Why is it a food?

It’s iron and platinium where the future is at. Silver and gold are yesterday’s news.

Why is it a food? So you can live out your fantasies of “evacuating” precious metals.

I also picked it up for my Home Instance, for much the same reasons. Like you, I suspect ANet is laying the groundwork for r500 Jeweler. For 800 gems however, I would like it if they were Rich Veins rather than normal nodes.

Why do you think this is a good idea? 3 ore per day, walk outside the town and fine 20+ ore nodes

3 copper ore = 120c
3 silver ore = 240c
3 gold ore = 440c
total = 8s / day
800 gems = 59.92g
time to recoup cost = 749 days
I’ll probably buy it anyways.

Mystic.5934:

3 copper ore = 120c
3 silver ore = 240c
3 gold ore = 440c
total = 8s / day
800 gems = 59.92g
time to recoup cost = 749 days
I’ll probably buy it anyways.

Great logic, not only did he do the math – but hes going against it!

Pay me 60g and i’ll give you:
3 copper ore
3 silver ore
3 gold ore
each day for 749 days!

I’m new to the game, and bought this, but where is “home Instance” I Play a charr charactor at the moment

It’s the instanced area in your city containing several points of interest. In any city, actually. For Charr it’s near the exit to the Plains. You can go in the “home” instance in any city even if it’s not yours.

Asura – Rata Sum – one of the portals on the main top level. I’m never sure which part of the triangle has it.

Human – Divinity’s Reach — Salma District, ne part of the city.

Norn – Hoelbrak – the Great Lodge. Look to your left from the WP just inside the door, the instance is right there.

Sylvari – the Grove – bottom level near the waypoint, a white-green glowing plant door.

It’s not like other node in home instance ? On all characters ?

Since one of the daily achievements is “daily gatherer”, why are we cheapening this achievement? Shouldn’t this require some exploration to gather the “goodies”? The concept is fine for amassing the raw materials needed, but how about removing these nodes (in the home instance) from counting toward the daily achievement? Shouldn’t we have to work (at least a little bit) for each achievement? I can trip over 5 items in the wild——-20 takes a little time to search out.

The only purpose of the dailies is for you to login daily and do stuff. The waypoint costs of you going to the home instance to harvest these nodes are good enough for ArenaNet as it is a small gold sink.

FuriousPop.2789:

Mystic.5934:

3 copper ore = 120c
3 silver ore = 240c
3 gold ore = 440c
total = 8s / day
800 gems = 59.92g
time to recoup cost = 749 days
I’ll probably buy it anyways.

Great logic, not only did he do the math – but hes going against it!

Pay me 60g and i’ll give you:
3 copper ore
3 silver ore
3 gold ore
each day for 749 days!

I can’t explain why, but this deal doesn’t seem as appealing. even if it was “each day forever”, it still isn’t something I’d sign up for. psychology. I think I bought it simply for completion-sake. the fact it’s called “Basic Ore Node Pack” makes me think there will be an “Advanced Ore Node Pack” later on.

Tempted to buy it JUST for the nodes in my home instance, I have little care over what they give, just that I want to load up my home instance with as much stuff as I can. I already have the quartz node, krait obelisk and candy corn node.

So for an obsessive collector like myself do you think it’s worth it. it would take a dip into my 140 some gold reserve.

advanced ore pack i can agree with buying provided it covers: oric, mith, plat and iron.
however the 800 gems i cannot justify these considering the value of the ores in this basic pack would not yield a return until somewhere around 2016…

Still not regretting my purchase, although I do wish they were Rich Veins rather than normal nodes.

I expect:
Basic = Copper, Silver, Gold (800 gems)
Advanced = Iron, Platinum (800 gems)
Master = Mithril (800 gems)
Grandmaster = Ori (1600 gems)

They always seem to treat T5 has better than T4, even though prices don’t reflect this.

It should have been something like this:

Basic: Copper/Silver/Gold (Rich nodes) (800 gems)
Advanced: Iron/Platinum/Mithril (Rich nodes) (800 gems)
Master: Ori (Normal node) (800 gems)

And they should also add woods.

GoddessOfTheWinds.2937:

It should have been something like this:

Basic: Copper/Silver/Gold (Rich nodes) (800 gems) = 25s/day
Advanced: Iron/Platinum/Mithril (Rich nodes) (800 gems) = 30s/day
Master: Ori (Normal node) (800 gems) = 12s/day

And they should also add woods.

added values to your suggestion. I can never understand why ori (and all the other T6) gets so many short sticks. promoting T4 to T5? 250 becomes 110. T5 to T6? 250 becomes 12.

Perhaps they could bundle Ori/Ancient (and Gossamer/Leather??) together for the 800 gems?

murven.7581:

The only purpose of the dailies is for you to login daily and do stuff. The waypoint costs of you going to the home instance to harvest these nodes are good enough for ArenaNet as it is a small gold sink.

What waypoint cost?? I just leave a character in a home area, next to the instance, enter it, take the goodies, leave and add them to my bank. No brain, no pain, no expense!. And, since I’m in a home area, NO waypoint cost at all!!

When this first came out, it was reported that the node was far across the home site from the other perm nodes; does anyone have one in Divinity’s Reach to confirm this? The others are all convenient to each other and I might think about this if it was next to the others.

In Divinity’s Reach, the 3 metal nodes are a short distance away near the metal fence. It is maybe a 5 second run from the candy corn/quartz/sprocket nodes.

The nodes are apparently the closest together in Rata Sum. They’re all clustered together immediately on the left after you enter the Idea Incubation Lab.

Zaxares.5419:

I also picked it up for my Home Instance, for much the same reasons. Like you, I suspect ANet is laying the groundwork for r500 Jeweler. For 800 gems however, I would like it if they were Rich Veins rather than normal nodes.

If you’re going from 0-500 then it’s probably money/gems well spent. If, however, you’re going from 400-500 then it’s an utter waste as the only way you can craft and gain the necessary experience is by discovering recipes with ori in them making more stuff out of ori.

What I meant by that post is that r500 Jeweler will almost certainly require Xunlai Electrum Ingots, which are in turn created from Silver/Gold/Platinum ingots. I suspect that the Electrum Ingots will require 20/20/10 of the aforementioned ingots, and that the Basic Ore Nodes were intended to inject additional supply into the economy by people harvesting them whenever they harvested their daily nodes.

True enough. I forgot about those little beauties that haven’t even been introduced into the game yet. I’ve been away from Jewelcrafting for too long.